Office Will be Closed Sept 17-19, 2007!

Fauquier ENT will be closed Sept 17-19, 2007. Our physicians will be attending a medical conference during that time period. Although office staff will be available for a limited number of hours to answer phone calls, no office visits will be scheduled during that time period and no allergy shots will be given. Please schedule accordingly.

New Video Example of the Dehydrated Voicebox

Wonder what your voicebox looks like when you are dehydrated and have a raspy voice? Well, now you can see what the dried out larynx looks like! Click here to check it out!

New Video Example of a Vocal Cord Varix

A new video and audio example has been posted on our website of a patient's vocal cord with a large blood vessel varicosity. The patient has a very hoarse voice at all pitch ranges and even diplophonia at the upper range. Check it out here.

Fauquier ENT Now in YouTube!

YouTube contains a phenomenally large repository of videos mainly geared towards entertainment. However, there is a growing number of medically relevant and accurate information on a variety of health topics. As a service to our patient population, Fauquier ENT has created a channel with relevant ENT videos culled from the YouTube library. Our channel is located at:

http://www.youtube.com/fauquierent

Click on the playlist tab for organizational ease in finding a video that may be of interest to you.

For particularly good videos, we went ahead and embedded them within our webpages...

Eustachian Tube Dysfunction
Sinusitis
Epley Maneuvers
Simpsons Hearing Test

Intra-Tympanic Steroid Injections Offered at Fauquier ENT

Intra-tympanic steroid injections are offered at Fauquier ENT. This treatment modality is used in patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss that responds minimally or not at all to systemic steroids (ie, prednisone). This treatment may be used without systemic steroids trial if there are contraindications to systemic steroid use such as intestinal ulcers and diabetes. The downside is that this treatment works best only if given within the first 36 days after the hearing loss occurs.

Intra-tympanic steroid injections have also been found to potentially help certain patients with tinnitus.

Watch video of this being performed here or watch below.

References
• Intratympanic corticosteroids for Meniere's disease and vertigo. Otolarngol Clin N Am. 37:955-972. 2004 Link
• Intratympanic perfusion for the treatment of tinnitus. Otolaryngol Clin N Am. 37:991-1000. 2004 Link
• Intratympanic steroids for sensorineural hearing loss. Otolaryngol Clin N Am. 1061-1074. 2004 Link
• Intratympanic Dexamethasone for sudden sensorineural hearing loss after failure of systemic therapy. Laryngoscope. 117:3-15. 2007. Link
• Intratympanic steroid injection for treatment of idiopathic sudden hearing loss. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 133:251-59. Link
• Clinical efficacy of initial intratympanic steroid treatment on sudden sensorineural hearing loss with diabetes. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 141:572-578. Link
• Hearing outcomes of daily intratympanic dexamethasone alone as a primary treatment modality for ISSHL. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 141:579-583. Link